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Definition of Offence
1. Noun. The action of attacking an enemy.
Generic synonyms: Military Operation, Operation
Specialized synonyms: Counteroffensive, Dirty War, Push Back, Rollback
2. Noun. The team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score.
3. Noun. A feeling of anger caused by being offended. "He took offence at my question"
Generic synonyms: Anger, Choler, Ire
Derivative terms: Offend, Umbrageous
4. Noun. A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others.
Generic synonyms: Behavior, Behaviour, Conduct, Doings
Specialized synonyms: Derision, Ridicule, Indelicacy, Insolence, Affront, Insult, Presumption, Rebuff, Slight
Derivative terms: Offend
5. Noun. (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act. "A long record of crimes"
Generic synonyms: Evildoing, Transgression
Specialized synonyms: Barratry, Capital Offense, Cybercrime, Felony, Forgery, Fraud, Had Crime, Highjack, Hijack, Mayhem, Infraction, Infringement, Misdemeanor, Misdemeanour, Violation, Commission, Committal, Perpetration, Attack, Attempt, Tazir Crime, Regulatory Offence, Regulatory Offense, Statutory Offence, Statutory Offense, Thuggery, High Treason, Lese Majesty, Treason, Vice Crime, Victimless Crime, War Crime
Category relationships: Criminal Law
Examples of category: Abduct, Kidnap, Nobble, Snatch, Impress, Shanghai, Commandeer, Highjack, Hijack, Pirate, Skyjack, Carjack, Extort, Blackmail, Scalp, Bootleg, Black Market, Run, Fob Off, Foist Off, Palm Off, Push, Black Marketeer, Pyramid, Ransom, Redeem, Traffic, Lift, Rustle, Shoplift, Hold Up, Stick Up, Mug, Pirate, Lift, Plagiarise, Plagiarize, Crib, Bribe, Buy, Corrupt, Grease One's Palms, Rake Off, Buy Off, Pay Off, Loot, Plunder, Smuggle, Kick Back
Derivative terms: Criminal, Criminalise, Criminate, Incriminate, Incriminate, Offend
Definition of Offence
1. n. See Offense.
Definition of Offence
1. Noun. The act of offending; a crime or sin; an affront or injury. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure. ¹
3. Noun. (context: team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; ''contrasted with'' defence. ¹
4. Noun. (context: team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; ''contrasted with'' defence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Offence
1. offense [n -S] - See also: offense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offence
Literary usage of Offence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"If it be, the offence (unless some other considerations, independent of the
punishment, ... By the profit of an offence, is to be understood, other kind, ..."
2. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"By I. 37, where any person shall have been convicted of any offence against any
Act relating to the coin, and shall afterwards be indicted for any ..."
3. A Treatise on Criminal Pleading and Practice by Francis Wharton (1889)
"Statute is to define the offence ; statute is arbitrarily to specify the ...
Cases, nominally of the same offence, as defined in the statute book, e. д., ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"... or any of them, shall in such case for the first offence forfeit to the sayd
lord proprietary and his heires lords arid proprietaries of this province, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the language of theology, satisfaction means: (1) atoning Ъу some suitable
service for an injury done to another's honour or for any other offence, ..."
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